Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1887-01-22

Austria is haste ming preparations for war.
Washington, d. c., is to nave toboggan
slide.
The suicides at Vienna LAST year number
ed $50.
Governor Lace OF Michigan is threatened
with impeachment.
A Connecticut genius has invented mast
that bends to the gale.
There are 1900 police and 100000 ten
ant farmers in Ireland.
Succi, the Italian faster, took in over 2c,-
600 francs one day recently.
The withdrawal Of British troops from
Egypt has begun on small scale.
The Partisan furiers have taken to imitat-
ing all sorts Of costly pelts in rabbit skin.
Nashville business men adopted resolutions
against the Interstate Commerce bill.
Lord Colin Campbell has determined not
to apply for new trial Of his divorce suit.
A company has been organized to supply
light, heat and motive power for New York
city.
Boston girls are said to be wearing en-
gagement rings on the fourth toe Of the left
foot.
The jubilee Of Queen Victoria's reign wilt
be celebrated throughout India on February
roth.
A rumor is current that England is giving
pecuniary assistance to the Bulgarian Re
gents.
A New York man is boring the largest
artesian we'll in the world at St. Augustine,
Florida.
The British Empire possesses o,7oo, 900
square miles and rules over nearly gao, ooo,
GOO souls.
Turkish gunboats are watching the coast
Of Canada in expectation of an uprising of
the people.
1t is alleged that two Of Chicago's most
prominent hotels make oleomargarine do
service as butter.
The ignition Of four.dust recently caused
the wreck of mill at Carberry, Manitoba,
valued at $4,000.
The Baroness Rothschild in Paris has an.
nounced coming series of Sunday afternoon
dances for young girls.
German and other foreign competition in
ocean commerce is seriously impairing the
prosperity Of Liverpool.
Mr.. Sturgeon, the London preacher, has
been suffering with an unusually severe at
tack Of govt at Mentone.
Georgia is infested with timber thieves
and land jumpers. The Governor offers $75o
head for their apprehension.
1t is declared that 5000 criminals are at
large in New York city because there are net
facilities for trying the rogues.
By the explosion of boiler on the Mos
guerra estate, at Matanxas, Cuba, FIVE persons
were killed and several injured.
Gayarre, the silver.voiced tenor who halls
from Spain, has signed to sing in opera in
Paris for fifty nights for $4,000.
Fifty thousand tons Of SCOT were taken
from London chimneys last year. Its value
was set at $zo4, ooo-as fertilizer.
The Great Eastern steamship is to be sold
at auction. 1t is thought she will be con-
verted into storeship or floating hospital.
Senator Stanford has the S per cent.
School-land bill ready to bring forward,
and will push it now at the first opportunity.
Turkey is massing an enormous number
CT troops in Macedonia. Most of these
troops are camping in the district Of DjumJa.
The oleomargarine factories have closed,
the State law prohibiting the manufacture Of
the article having, been declared constitution.
al.
The cables which suspended the railway
suspension bridge at Niagra Falls have bees
transferred from the stone towers to steel
ones.
There were nearly three hundred more d.
vorce suits begun in Chicago last year than
the year before, and 1873 more divorces were
granted.
The High School building at Syracuse. N.
", costing 500. 900. has been condemned
by the Board Of Health on account Of defec.
tive plumbing.
The Governor of Indiana reports the total
debt OF the State at $6.oo6, 900. The insane
hospital consumes about one-fourth the en-.
tire revenue of the State.
Queen Victoria has received a fortune Of
81 900, 900 through the death Of William
Heathcote of Hillingdon, he dying intestate
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